Early assessment of rapidly progressive interstitial pneumonia associated with amyopathic dermatomyositis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 436-439

  Miyazaki, Eishi ^a   Ando, Masaru ^a   Muramatsu, Tomoko ^a   Fukami, Tetsujiro ^a   Matsuno, Osamu ^a   Nureki, Shin ichi ^a   Ueno, Takuya ^a   Tsuda, Tomiyasu ^b   Kumamoto, Toshihide ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shinbeppu Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyopathic dermatomyositis; Cyclosporine; High resolution computed tomography; Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia; Pneumomediastinum

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OXYGEN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AMYOPATHIC DERMATOMYOSITIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG RESPONSE; DYSPNEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; ERYTHEMA; FATALITY; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXEMIA; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCLE BIOPSY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORINE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MEDIASTINAL EMPHYSEMA; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947673434     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-005-0147-4     Document Type: Article

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